I think that apple figured out a long time ago that the price performance would never be as good, and that pure performance would be on par - at best. Since th

I think that apple figured out a long time ago that the price performance would never be as good, and that pure performance would be on par - at best. Since then it has all been about making it look good for enterprise goons. Consolidating and vertical scaling and all that. And poor buggers that end up with high cpu steal and poor performance because a new box is just unimaginably expensive when you have filled the existing system.